Art Fair ConfidentialSeptember 5-November 9: The 2013 Texas Biennial. Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, and other locations in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Marfa, TX. Information. Wednesday, September 4 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Eric Starosielski | Social Engagement. Judith Charles Gallery, 196 Bowery, at Spring Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Kasper Bonne and Kadar Brock. The Hole, 312 Bowery, NY, … Read the full Story >>
We launch the new year today with a list of must-see photography shows that continue, close, and open soon. The DART Board will resume next week. Above: Woman holding Mao poster, September 21, 1971; continuing at NYC Municipal Archives Continuing Unlikely Historians: Materials Collected by NYPD Surveillance Teams, 1960-1975, continues through February 28. NYC Municipal Archives, 31 Chambers Street, NY, NY Info Documenting … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair Confidential Wednesday, May 8-Saturday, May 11 Collective.1 Design Fair. Pier 57, NY. Information. Tickets $15-$30. Friday, May 10-Monday, May 13 Frieze, New York, Randall’s Island Park, NY, NY. Information. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Friday, May 10-Sunday, May 12 New Art Dealers’ Association/NADA Fair, Pier 36, 299 South Street, NY, NY. Free. Information. Thursday, May 9-Sunday, May 12: Pulse … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Cambodia and China, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Barcelona? A: Both my parents are refugees from Cambodia and China. I was born in Barcelona, the city where I live now. It’s a comfortable city, a place where you have everything you could possibly need. But I like to travel to other places from time … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]?A: I'm originally from the middle of Long Island, I then moved to Baltimore for art school [MICA], and I've been living in Brooklyn since 2013. I love that there's somehow an endless supply of activities here and you can get ice cream … Read the full Story >>
Jimi Billingsley, a Brooklyn-based photographer who also directs the contemporary art gallery in Lower Manhattan called Pablo's Birthday, wrote to let me know that he had curated an exhibition opening this weekend in Woodstock, N.Y. called “The Medium and The Message.” The announcement included a statement that reads, “Marshall McLuhan observed, ‘It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just … Read the full Story >>
When the New York Times Magazine serialized George Sprott: 1894-1975 in its now defunct "Funny Pages" section, it brought to a wide audience the work of Seth, a Canadian comics artist, author and book designer whose own printed output arrives with long stretches between titles. Last year, Drawn & Quarterly released the story in book form, with additional narrative that brought the epic an … Read the full Story >>
In his 88th year, Alex Katz is having a year to celebrate. With exhibitions at The High Museum, Atlanta; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Katz has been drawing deserved attention. On Wednesday night at the New York Public Library, he discussed his new book, Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s (Prestel 2015), which is … Read the full Story >>
The New York gallery scene often heats up with a flurry of summer group shows before taking its customary August nap. This year is no exception and one of the most intriguing of these will open tonight at Yancey Richardson Gallery. Left to right: Simen Johan, Untitled #162, from the series Until the Kingdom Comes; Kahn & Selesnick, King of the Birds … Read the full Story >>
Lynn Saville continues her exploration of the city at night in her third book, Dark City: Urban America at Night. The urban landscape of dusk and dawn offers a world of transitional spaces largely overlooked in daylight. In the spaces between buildings and rivers, behind billboards and highways, alongside warehouses and empty storefronts, Saville captures a strange palette of artificial light whose colors define a mysterious and … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Britain's North Country, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Cambridge? A: I am from Yorkshire and left to go to University in London to study painting at Chelsea School of Art at the tender age of 19. I now live in Cambridge where I also have a studio. I love Cambridge for its cultural richness, … Read the full Story >>
Desiccated goat, rat, and turkey; steel, rope, carpet, peach basket, wood, tire scraps, plastic toys, shoes, motor-oil bottle, wire fencing, chains, ironing board, farm and construction tools, wire, paintbrushes, enamel, spray paint, and Splash Zone compound. While this list could understandably be mistaken for items encountered by John McPhee on one of his epic road trips, they are, in fact, the materials (along … Read the full Story >>
Opening Friday, July 8: Sensory Poetics | Collecting Abstraction at the Guggenheim Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction brings together highlights from the Guggenheim’s growing collection of contemporary art. Acquired over the past ten years, and shown at the museum for the first time, this selection of artworks reflects developments in painting, sculpture, and video from the 1960s to today that demonstrate an expression of gesture … Read the full Story >>
What is street photography? What makes a street photographer? What is a street? These questions and more invaded my consciousness as I poured over images in the Keizo Kitajima mini-retrospective at Amador Gallery this morning. Little known in the U.S., Kitajima was a student at Daido Moriyama's Tokyo Workshop Photography School in the 1970s. His first exhibitions, raw images of Tokyo's seamy night life, … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Matt Rota, who lives and works in Brooklyn, and enjoys drawing in the city parks. I usually have a number of sketchbooks I’m working in at any given moment. I have one or two that are for anything, working … Read the full Story >>
The exhibition of Walker Evans photographs at the UBS Gallery offers an intriguing opportunity to appreciate the evolution of photographic printmaking, using the work of a great master as the testing ground.Curated by John T. Hill and Sven Martson for the Yale University School of Art, the show explores a definitive two-year period in Walker Evan's career and a significant moment in American history. … Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Screenings Continuing through September 10 2nd Annual Women’s Film Series, 8 pm. Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY Info Wednesday, September 7 The Public Art Fund Talks presents: David Shrigley, 6:30 pm. The New School, 12th street Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY InfoRoundtable discussion: Sheherzade's Gift, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, … Read the full Story >>
It is no exaggeration—and worth repeating—that Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was one of the most influential artists of the past half century. Scan his CV and you will find that he has had a solo exhibition ever year since 1981—most recently the major retrospective that originated at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 2012; morphed larger to MoMA PS1 in 2013; then went to both locations of … Read the full Story >>
FAIR WARNING: This weekend is your last chance to see an exhibition that celebrates the photographers who are the rock stars of their genre. If the music marked significant moments in your life, chances are there are photographs from those days that have also become part of your personal mythology - and chances are that you'll find some of them in Who Shot Rock … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Upcoming Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts | Business; Music; Immigration, various dates. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1 East 53rd Street, NY, NY Info Tuesday, September 26 Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from the Brooklyn Rail, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info On Assignment | photographers Ryan Koopmans and … Read the full Story >>
